The First Book. Of Persons

Chap. 1. The form of their Common-wealth till Christ, and when the Scepter departed.

2. Publicans, their Office, who the chief.

3. Prosolytes, who, how made.

4. Kings, Why Pilate clad Christ in Purple; Herod in white.

5. High-Priests, Priests, Levites, Nethinims.

6. Prophets, who, the Wise-man, Scribe, and Disputer, mentioned, 1 Cor. 1. 20.

7. Title of Rabbi, when, how, to whom given.

8. Nazarites and Rechabites.

9. Assideans; difference between the Righteous and Good man, mentioned, Rom. 5. 7.

10. Pharisees, whence their name, when they began, what their Dogmata.

11. Sadduces, whence their name, when they began, what their Dogmata.

12. Essenes, whence their name, when they began, what their Dogmata.

13. Gaulonitæ, and Herodians, what they were.